Thinking about blogging does not a blogger make...

While there are some pursuits where thinking about something is nearly the same as actually doing it (like, philosophy, for instance, and . . . erm, okay, I can't think of anything else that really applies here), blogging is not one of those things, unfortunately for me.

As you can see from my blog, there's been very little DOING lately even though there has been a great deal of THINKING going on. Really, I swear! I think about blogging all the time as I'm driving down the road...

What's been taking my time lately? Well, for a while I could use the Olympics as an excuse. We had just gotten a DVR (think "Tivo" but with a different name, through Comcast) and we were recording every ounce of Olympic programming. Our DVR was constantly at 98% full. We were watching four hours of Olympics a night for a while there, and that was fast-forwarding through all the commercials and the boring parts of the events themselves ("Nope, no falls yet! 30 laps of speed skating to go. Keep fast-forwarding!"

Now, I'm currently addicted to Ape Escape 3 for PS2. It's my perfect kind of video game -- cute monkeys, not too hard, not many jumps to make over an abyss, etc. I'm at 51% right now, and will keep renting it with my free blockbuster coupons until I'm nearly done . . . or completely sick of it. In Ape Escape 2, I got to a part that I could not get past, and I gave it up around 75%. We'll see how far I get on this one.

But, just so all of you know, I am thinking about blogging and hope to one day soon be more than just a thinker again.

Public Art in Nashville

During the Christmas holiday, a friend visited us from Tampa, FL. He moved to Tampa about a year ago and has spent the past 12 months visiting and photographing every public art site that he can find in Tampa and the surrounding area. When he visited Nashville, he was interested in doing something similar in our lovely city. The problem was, I couldn't find a list of public art anywhere. I knew where a couple of pieces were, but did not know of a compiled list that you could work towards "checking off."

Since my friend's return to Tampa, I've been compiling my own personal list of things I want to see and do in Nashville and I revisited the public art checklist idea. I did a little research, but could only really come up with this site. While the details about each of the pieces listed are extensive, I know that there are a lot of works left off of this list. Do any Nashvillians know of a more comprehensive list that exists? If not, I'm half tempted to make up a list of my own.